Experience

John is a managing director in Citrin Cooperman’s Digital Services Practice. He builds the AI systems most firms are still slide-decking about. Pragmatic and ROI-first, he sits at the intersection of business operations, IT, and enterprise change — translating between the three so agentic AI ships, scales, and holds up in production.

He has stood up autonomous agent systems for enterprise clients across financial services, industrial operations, and media — replacing brittle legacy integrations with deterministic pipelines, deploying agents into live client workflows, and turning fragmented data estates into governed, decision-ready platforms on Azure. He operates a live multi-tenant agent fleet across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft frontier models, choosing the right brain for each workload rather than betting the firm on one.

His conviction: Copilot helps, Autopilot runs the box, Pilot AI flies the plane. His edge is getting organizations out of pilot-purgatory and into the third posture — where AI isn't a feature, it's the operator.